Friday 16 September 2022

Anyone Out There?

It was a warm and clear night. I sat in the garden for a while just listening to the quiet around me and thinking about nothing in particular. Just thoughts wandering in and out of my mind as they sometimes do. Every so often I could hear the cry of an owl in the distance – perhaps calling for its mate.

I looked up and gazed at the stars. There were hundreds and hundreds of them. The more I looked the more of them I saw as my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness. They made me feel so small.

Here am I in my garden looking up – and there they were, all these stars, shining in the night miles and miles away. There must be millions of them.

And to think that some people believe that they just happened to be out there. Not created by a supreme, omnipotent Being.

My thoughts then wandered on … am I alone here looking up at the sky at night? Is there someone else on one of these stars sitting in his garden looking at my planet shining like a tiny dot in his dark sky?

And if so, then surely that being looking at me was also created by God; just like me. Did God send His only Son to that being’s world too; to die for him, as He did for me?

The cry of the owl brought me back to earth with a bump.

I guess we’ll never know the answers to my questions. Perhaps we’re not meant to know.

We humans think we’re so clever because we’ve advanced so much in such a short period of time. We thirst for knowledge and the more we learn the more proud we become of our achievements.

Maybe, for our own benefit, there are things that God will not allow us to know. No matter how hard we try to find the answers.

19 comments:

  1. We're out in the middle of the ocean with little pollution. I'm thinking of taking a class to discover what's going on out there! I know I'm missing out on a huge swath of God's brilliant creation ...

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    1. It's when we look up at a clear sky and see all those stars we realise how small we are; and how Someone much greater than us must have created it all.

      God bless, Linda.

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  2. ...the world is filled with wonderment.

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  3. Dearest Victor,
    Sure, so many WONDERS around us!
    We discovered that also on our trip out West.
    Seeing the rock formations, that are millions of years old.
    HOW did it all come to be? How did it all shift?
    What MORE is there in the endless universe?!
    And WHY—WHY are some atheists denying that all this marvel got created?!
    How erroneous they ARE and how fatal their thinking will one day prove to be! We all will face our Creator—out FINAL JUDGE—at the end of our stay here on planet earth!
    Hugs,
    Mariette

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    1. There is so much around us to make us believe in a Creator God; yet people are still obstinate and do not want to believe.

      God bless, Mariette.

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  4. There's nothing quite so humbling, is there? I do believe we'll find all the answers in His good time, not ours. What joy!

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    1. So much evidence of God around us to make us humble in gratitude.

      God bless you, Mevely.

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  5. I always find it humbling to look at the night sky and realize how small all of us are. Yet the miracle is that God cares for us anyway, as He cares for all His creation.
    Blessings, Victor!

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    1. "He cares for all His creation". Amen.

      God bless, Martha.

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  6. It is so amazing to me to know that the God that created this whole universe cares about even me. :)

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  7. Deep thoughts and a hooting owl. :) Alone or not, we live in a universe that's packed with wonders. And puzzles, which is another topic.

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  8. Yes that's true, Brian. How are you? It's good to see you here.

    God bless.

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  9. Sometimes it is a pleasure to look at the night sky and take time to contemplate. There are many questions, I'm sure answers will come in time.

    Happy Sunday Wishes.

    All the best Jan

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    1. The reason answers are taking so long to come is because they are light years away.

      God bless, Jan.

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  10. Some things we won't know until we get to the other side.

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    1. True; perhaps we are not meant to know.

      God bless, Mimi.

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